Shreveport woman takes on role of mother for her nephew

1:28 AM,
May 11, 2014

Sandra Smith is raising her brother's son, Malachi Smith.

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Malachi Smith is a typical 8-year-old. He loves riding his bike, playing games on his PlayStation 3 and Android, feeding the ducks at Shreveport's duck pond and spending time with his Mama.

Even though Sandra Smith isn't Malachi's biological mother, she's still Mama. And when she became Mama to Malachi, he was just a year old and she also had a young son.

Before Malachi was born, Smith often joked with her brother, Ricky Smith, about giving the baby to her. "I said y'all don't know what to do with a baby, so give that baby to me... I was joking around then. I didn't know it was going to come true." ...